When colleagues and friends ask me why I'm still teaching after 48 years, I respond with:"I love my work. Teaching is not a job. It's a way of life". I try to remain cognizant of the following:

You, the instructor, need to love, and respect your subject matter, (2) It's easier to teach a lesson if most of the students like your personality, (3) try to remember that you too were once a student, and demonstrate patience and compassion to your students whenever they fall behind and seen not to be able to manage the presented material, (3)And most importantly, bring into your classroom ethical behavior, fairness, beauty, and love so as to create for your students and for yourself an environment of sacred time and space in which to practice your chosen craft.